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I would like to think that karma comes back to cheating teams and players, but Uruguay reached a World Cup semi final and won in penalty kicks after Suarez stopped the ball with his hands in that quarterfinal game against Ghana... and they've been considerably successful since then.

There's no such thing as karma ... or at least it doesn't work the way people believe.

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

There's no such thing as karma ... or at least it doesn't work the way people believe.[/QUOTE]

Please elaborate.

I'm no expert on this so please be patient with me if I'm way off the mark, but there are way too many interpretations of 'karma' according to different religions and philosophies. The base one, though (and I could be completely wrong about this), is the one stating that good actions and good intents beget good habits, which beget good effects.

There's, of course, the more popular one (tightly linked to rebirth, which is not accepted by all related religions), which works as some sort of boomerang: you're an arsehole in this life, and next time you're born a lower cast, or a rat, or a dung beetle. That's been largely adapted by Westerners into a Hollywoodesque concept, which for some people is just some harmless fun, but for others is unexplainably believable and 'serious' enough.

An example could be the aforementioned handball by Henry: a more genuine 'karmic' interpretation would be simply that the bad action is gonna generate some sorrow on the guilty parties (such as Henry and the ref), especially considering France's performance on the subsequent World Cup was utterly abysmal; a more spectacular and media-friendly (but not by any means philosophically or 'spiritually' sound) would be to have an imaginary deity issuing some sort of original-sin-ersatz curse on future generations of French players (who are completely innocent from whatever Henry did) and/or to give Henry and the ref haemorrhoids. Supernatural nonsense, IMO.

Come on, Seb - we are only joking, don't make it such a serious issue :-)

Apart from that Uruguay lost vs Venezuela yesterday and was unexpectedly kicked out of the Copa America. Hmmm...

I really don't know what was going on in the manager's head during that match. Your team's losing an important game, desperately needs at least a goal (preferably more) and one of the best goalscorers of the moment (who recently made Pichichi ahead of both Messi and CR7) is sitting on the bench... and you leave him there!

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

I really don't know what was going on in the manager's head during that match. Your team's losing an important game, desperately needs at least a goal (preferably more) and one of the best goalscorers of the moment (who recently made Pichichi ahead of both Messi and CR7) is sitting on the bench... and you leave him there![/QUOTE]

Suarez is still recovering from an injury. Sure, he's on the bench, but he's still not physically at 100%, and according to Suarez himself, not even 90%. I have no sports medicine knowledge, but who knows if by still being in recovery he's risking developing his injury even further.

Even 10% Suarez would've possibly been a threat to the Venezuelan defence. Maybe not ... we'll never know.

In German media they reported that Suarez was marked as "injured" on the official team sheet, so the Manager could not let him play, it would have been against the rules. The mistake was to let him sit on the bench.

[QUOTE] [b]YourValentine wrote:[/b]

In German media they reported that Suarez was marked as "injured" on the official team sheet, so the Manager could not let him play, it would have been against the rules. The mistake was to let him sit on the bench.[/QUOTE]

Facial cuts I think. Looked in the mirror and tried to bite himself.

America won last night and are through to the semis. Ukraine are out, which is a shame because they're a really good team IMO.

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

America won last night and are through to the semis. Ukraine are out, which is a shame because they're a really good team IMO.[/QUOTE]


O am rooting for Mexico to take it all the way. We will see...

It'd be nice if they won. They've always had great teams but have never won a major tournament (other than the CONCACAF Gold Cup ... but that's not really a major tournament, is it?).

Well, they did win the Confederations Cup in 1999, but Copa America would be nice...

Quoting Frederick, 'oh, how wrong can you be?'